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North Pole

One of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface

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  • Medicines and Medicine chest: Peary North Pole 1909
  • Two polar bears meet near the North Pole: despite the cold, the female bear is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, which the male bear attributes to high tolerance of cold among northern females. Lithograph by CMK (?).

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    Medicines and Medicine chest: Peary North Pole 1909

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    Two polar bears meet near the North Pole: despite the cold, the female bear is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, which the male bear attributes to high tolerance of cold among northern females. Lithograph by CMK (?).

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 32940i
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    The North Pole / by Robert E. Peary ; with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.

    Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920. | Date: 1910
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    Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. 13, no. 3.

    | Date: 1869
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    The Arctic grail : the quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 / by Pierre Berton.

    Berton, Pierre, 1920-2004. | Date: 1988

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